max holloway

* Provided petroleum engineering services to companies including Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas, Octagon Resources, SMR Natural Gas Ventures, Anson Corporation, Apache Corporation, Midway College, and Parker & Parker Development Company. * Proved acquisition evaluation and due diligence, field exploitation studies, reserve reports, completion design, SPCC Plans, SARA Title III filings, expert witness, and prospect evaluations. * 19 months full time for SMR Natural Gas Ventures.

* Provided expertise in acquisitions and divestitures, financing, exploration and exploitation to optimize cash flow and maximize long term shareholder profits. * Areas of activity were concentrated in the Mid-Continent, West Texas, and onshore Gulf Coast.

* Continuation of building and transitioning office and field staff to accommodate a 15 rig horizontal drilling program for Mississippi Chat, Granite Wash, and Woodford Shale plays. * Managed field staff of 50+ and office staff of 20+. * Improved processes to more efficiently operate more than 700 wells with gross production of 100 MMCFD, 3,500 BOPD and 150,000 BWPD (90 MMCFDE dry net). * Well performance and efficiency firsts/records were achieved for the Division.

* Built and high-graded the operations staff of Drilling, Completions, and Productions Engineers. * Generated and implemented tools to enhance data collection and impact capital tracking, SWD cost allocation, and well performance tracking.

Continued same managerial responsibilities from Dominion and was assigned supervision of the 130 Production Operations staff in Oklahoma, Texas Panhandle and Kansas (Linn acquired the Mid-Continent Asset from Dominion).

* Managed staff of 10 Production Engineers, Technicians, and Assistants for Asset Group with over 1,800 wells with production of 200 MMCFD and 4,000 BOPD. * Managed formulation and implementation of LOE and Capital budgets. * Engineering oversight of recompletion and workover operations, mentoring new hires, data strategy development, monthly summary reporting, compressor utilization database, and software implementation.

* Operations engineering for 1,100 wells making up to 160 MMCFD and 2,000 BOPD at depths to 19,000’. * Responsibilities included capital/LOE budgeting and implementation, exploitation, central compression design, workover/recompletion generation and oversight, and artificial lift.

* Supervised staff of four engineers and two field technicians. * Provided technical and operational support for 1,446 active wells producing 5,600 BOPD, 5,700 MCFD, and 310,000 BWPD. * Exceeded production targets by 4% for oil and 25% for gas in 1989.

* Responsible for daily operations, production and expense budgets of 585 wells. * Investigated, formulated, and conducted exploitation projects including workovers, stimulations, recompletions, equipment installations, and cost efficiencies.

* Provided engineering research and technical information pertaining to production operations, facility design, and completions in several basins in Colombia, South America. * Formulated, implemented, and evaluated projects relating to production monitoring systems, well testing, shaped charge perforating performance, equipment standardization, completions, and subsurface corrosion evaluation. * Developed and implemented a tool to tubing convey perforate with a rod pump in place preventing 80% productivity losses due to control fluids.

Independent oil and gas company focusing mainly in the mid-continent region. The company’s emphasis is exploration for liquid rich targets with associated natural gas, primarily through horizontal drilling.

* Provided leadership to a staff of 150+ while continuing the production CAGR of >6%. * Improved Capital Expenditure efficiency (production/capex) by 40% over a two year period. * Set record performance for best quarterly IP’s in the Mississippi Chat Play. * Responsible for annual budgets over 200MM$ that included all aspects of Capital Expenditures, LOE and Production. * Decision making impacted Gas Marketing, IT, EHS, HR, Purchasing, and Accounting. * Full responsibility for core departments of Operations, Geosciences, Engineering, Land and Field Operations. Focused on transforming culture toward excellence and performance